From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.122.137 with SMTP id ls9mr308107pab.17.1402405233169; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:00:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.19.102 with SMTP id 93mr3001qgg.31.1402405233099; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:00:33 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!backlog3.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!h3no662752igd.0!news-out.google.com!q9ni357qaj.0!nntp.google.com!hw13no6070720qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 06:00:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2.121.192.150; posting-account=L2-UcQkAAAAfd_BqbeNHs3XeM0jTXloS NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.121.192.150 References: <1402308235.2520.153.camel@pascal.home.net> <85ioo9yukk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <255b51cd-b23f-4413-805a-9fea3c70d8b2@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! From: Lucretia Injection-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:00:33 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Original-Bytes: 2087 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:186803 Date: 2014-06-10T06:00:32-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 13:50:49 UTC+1, J-P. Rosen wrote: > > This is a major problem actually. With GCC C/C++/.Obj-C/etc., someone > > can come along and just write a mobile app and sell it without any > > fear of being sued as you didn't release the source. Not so with > > ACT's GPL'd GNAT [...] >=20 > But it the case with FSF Gnat. Nobody forces you to use ACT's version. But you've not taken into account everything else I said. RE: The libs are = GPL'd too, therefore you cannot do anything reasonable these days without u= nicode or XML, in fact both Android and iOS require the use of both. You wo= uld have to try to find an appropriately licenced lib or write your own or = bind to something else. Luke.